Show #3262 1998-11-10 (taped 1998-09-18) Regular

1998 Boston Week game 2.From the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

Contestants

Robin Shepherd — a contract administrator from Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania

Jim Zanotti — a law student from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Roger Green — a business librarian from Albany, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Roger	$400	$600	$2,200	$4,000 2nd place: a trip to Almond Beach Resort, Barbados	$2,200 7 R, 1 W
Jim	$100	$2,700	$5,500	$1,700 3rd place: a Panasonic DVD player	$5,400 15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Robin	$1,500	$2,900	$9,200	$6,700 New champion: $6,700	$10,700 27 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

YANKEE INGENUITY	PEOPLE & PLACES	SHE'S MY FIRST LADY!	MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	CELEBRITY RELATIVES	RHYMES WITH COD
$100 [6] He sketched out a model of his telegraph during an ocean voyage in 1832 Samuel Morse Robin	$100 [11] In New Zealand, a pakeha is a person who isn't descended from these natives the Maori Jim	$100 [12] Barbara George H.W. Bush Robin	$100 [26] Instrument you're most likely to hear at the Braemar Gathering & other Highland Games the bagpipes Robin	$100 [1] The father of "ER"'s Julianna Margulies wrote this product's "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz" jingle Alka-Seltzer Jim	$100 [18] A stick used for punishment; don't "spare" it rod Roger
$200 [7] Eli Whitney saw little profit from this invention as unauthorized copies sprouted up everywhere the cotton gin Robin	$200 [17] Corfiotes are natives of this island that isn't far from Albania Corfu	$200 [13] Mamie Dwight Eisenhower Robin	$200 [27] Musical instrument ineptly played by private Hannibal Dobbs on the TV series "F Troop" the bugle Roger	$300 [3] Her mother originated the column of household hints that she took over at age 26 in 1977 Heloise Robin	$200 [19] It's the past participle of "shoe", & we're not horsing around shod Robin
$300 [8] John Fitch launched a vessel of this type in 1787, 16 years before Robert Fulton a steamboat Robin	$300 [20] Orcadians don't live on the planet Ork but in the Orkney Islands of this British Isles country Scotland Robin	$300 [14] Rosalynn Jimmy Carter Jim	$300 [28] This percussion instrument with small jingling disks is often used to provide a gypsy effect in musical pieces the tambourine Robin	$400 [4] This actor & his brother Brett played brothers Larry & Jimmy Flynt in 1996's "The People vs. Larry Flynt" Woody Harrelson Jim	$300 [23] To poke, perhaps with a cattle implement prod Robin
$400 [9] To demonstrate his safety brake, this inventor jumped in an elevator & cut the cables Elisha Otis Roger	$400 [21] The people of this "Magnolia State" are sometimes known as Mud-Cats Mississippi Robin	$400 [15] Lucy Rutherford B. Hayes Roger Robin	$400 [29] The lowest-pitched of the brass instruments, its name is from the Latin for trumpet the tuba Jim	DD $500 [2] (Hi, I'm Carol Burnett.) On TV I first pulled on my left ear as a way of saying hello to this relative who was at home her grandmother Jim	$400 [24] A style once worn in swingin' London, or Peggy Lipton's "Squad" mod Jim
$500 [10] He launched the first liquid propellant rocket in 1926 at his Aunt Effie's Massachusetts farm Robert Goddard	$500 [22] It's the religion of most of the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan Islam Jim	$500 [16] Lou Herbert Hoover	$500 [30] Medieval instrument heard here a lute Roger Jim	$500 [5] This TV comic's mother Betty is a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights group Ellen DeGeneres Robin	$500 [25] Perhaps from obsolete Dutch for "shred", it's a young cod or haddock scrod Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE	ANIMAL NAME ORIGINS	FILMS OF THE '40S	APRIL	SHOWERS	THE MAYFLOWER
$200 [11] One of Hawthorne's last works, "Chiefly About War Matters", was chiefly about this war Civil War Roger	$200 [24] In Sanskrit this speedy animal's name was chitraka, meaning "speckled" the cheetah Jim	$200 [2] 20th Century Fox oddly chose the month of June to release this 1947 fable about Kris Kringle Miracle on 34th Street Robin	$200 [1] Holly Joan Hart, this magazine's April 1998 centerfold, likes F. Scott Fitzgerald & bubble baths Playboy Jim	$200 [16] Minnie Driver, Scott Wolf & LeAnn Rimes are among celebrities who've confessed to doing this in the shower singing Robin	$200 [13] A replica of the Mayflower is docked on the waterfront of this Massachusetts city Plymouth Robin
$400 [12] Hawthorne added this letter to his last name when he began writing stories W Robin	$400 [25] Discovered & decimated in less than 200 years, its name is from the Portuguese for "foolish" Dodo Jim	$400 [3] He directed Judy Garland in "Meet Me In St. Louis" & married her the next year Vincent Minnelli Robin	$400 [5] In 1789 the first of these events took place in April; it was later moved to March, then January presidential inauguration Robin	$400 [17] This type of enclosure for showering shares its name with a home for horses Shower stall	$400 [14] Samoset stunned the Pilgrims when he welcomed them to America in this language English Robin
$600 [21] Hawthorne based "The Celestial Railroad" on this John Bunyan work, one of his boyhood favorites Pilgrim's Progress Robin	$800 [27] The story goes Capt. Cook asked what that animal was & a local replied this, meaning "Don't understand" Kangaroo	$600 [4] He was the subject of the 1946 biopic seen here:"You see, tomorrow I leave for Hollywood, according to what they call 'talking pictures', so what's going to happen to me?" Al Jolson Roger	$600 [8] 2 American car models, or the 2 signs of the Zodiac that cover parts of April Aries & Taurus Robin	$600 [18] The name of this thin mortar that seals tiles can also refer to meal or malt grout Robin	DD $1,500 [15] No Puritan, this friend of Myles Standish was the last surviving signer of The Mayflower Compact John Alden Robin
$800 [22] Mrs. Hawthorne's nickname for this family friend & novelist was "Mr. Omoo" Herman Melville Robin	$1,000 [28] This name for the spiny anteater is from the Greek for "viper"; it has a venom system Echidna Jim	$800 [6] The title of this Boyer-Bergman film became a verb meaning to make someone doubt his sanity Gaslight Roger	$800 [9] It's the 1991 film about 4 women who share an Italian villa for a month Enchanted April Robin	$800 [19] In 1993 this Teledyne brand produced its 40 millionth shower massage unit Waterpik Jim	—
$1,000 [23] Hawthorne died while traveling through New Hampshire with this former president, his close friend Franklin Pierce Robin	DD $1,200 [26] These colorful beetles were named in honor of the Virgin Mary ladybugs Jim	$1,000 [7] Don't look for a mail carrier in this 1946 crime flick--he's only a metaphor The Postman Always Rings Twice Robin	$1,000 [10] April 5 is the feast day of St. Vincent Ferrer, patron of these workers, like Sir Thomas Crapper plumbers/sanitary engineers Jim	$1,000 [20] A squirting shower head may be clogged with this--the calcium compound, not the fruit Lime Robin	—

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NEW ENGLANDERS

Native New Englander seen here, modeling for his company's catalog sometime before WWI

L.L. Bean

Roger "Who is Bean?" — wagered $1,800

Jim "Who was Sears?" — wagered $3,800

Robin "Who is Sears?" — wagered $2,500

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